Congo - Kinshasa Movies

Forest dwellers pound drums upholding rituals while urbanites cry "Progress!" More plunder the land's riches but newly defiant ones shout back.

The film uses the 1969 American Apollo 11 mission that landed a man on the moon as the year and the backdrop for an interesting glimpse at middle clas...

Nestor, Aaron, Benjamin and Rafiki are economics undergraduates at the University of Bangui. Navigating between the overcrowded classrooms, the petty...

Documentary about Zaire's football team at the 1974 FIFA World Cup and what happened to the players afterwards.

Blasty and Céli love each other, but Blasty has another love: his stereo radio set. When he walks the streets of his native Kinshasa, Céli and the rad...

Max wakes up one morning and discovers that his wife Hélène has left him in his sleep, without a word, taking their two children with her. He doesn't...

Ancestral patterns combined with modern prejudices and stigma explain skin bleaching.

Rooted in the oral tale recounted by the Tetela in Sankuru, Democratic Republic of Congo, this story explains how it came to be that the Fox ate the C...

Though mosquitoes have almost as many sensory auditory cells as we do, their hearing is for the sole purpose of finding a mate. Individual males (more...

With all the charm of flick soccer, Subbuteo, pinball, and other miniature passions, this is played on a small circle of stubby broken-off sticks like...

For 25 years, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been ravaged by a war that has largely been ignored by the media and the international community. T...

This documentary offers the reflections of filmmakers shot at FESPACO 1991. Djibril Diop Mambéty, David Achkar, Moussa Sene Absa, Mambaye Coulibaly, I...

Taking in the wives of the unemployed, of unpaid government employees, the Kitambo maternity clinic in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo has to c...

Meli finds Chirac, and the two lovers are very happy to meet up after a long time and decide to catch up. The adventure becomes hard to continue when...

Four friends roam the streets, bars and boxing clubs in a bubbling and bewitching big African town.

61 years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba returns to his country. "Congo returns to Congo" as one of his children said. Lumumba was a national...

Born in the recent past in school playgrounds and now a national sport, Nzango is a female-only game. The aim is to imitate, or more mysteriously, ant...

Papy finds out he has AIDS. His wife and family reject him, he can no longer go to work and has to take care of his children. To be able to obtain the...

A fratricide war between two tribes in the Congo in the pre-colonial period: the Tsembo and the Tsoundi. Their alliance is guaranteed by the marriage...